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some noise and still he slept on. She then called for her brothers, Popoloau and Kawai- 

 koi, and her servants Poo and Mahamaha, to come in. When they arrived she said: 

 "The chief is dead; let us wrap him up and carry him off and cast him into the sea." 

 The brothers and men then did as they were told, and cast him into the sea. Opelemoe- 

 moe slept on as though he was on land, never once moving. In this sleep the fish came 

 around and ate his skin. 



After some months had lapsed, during which time Opelemoemoe slept on at the 

 bottom of the sea, a thunder storm came up and Opelemoemoe awoke. When he looked 

 about him, he saw that he was at the bottom of the sea, all wrapped up and bound with 

 cords. He then sat up and began to untie himself, and after he was free from the cords 

 he came to the surface and swam ashore. He had no skin, he was covered with sores 

 and was unable to walk ; so he crawled to a pig pen where he sat down ; from this place 

 he crawled to another house where a priest was living who gave him some medicine 

 and treated him until he was well. He then went back to his wife and they lived on as 

 formerly. After the lapse of certain periods of tens of days, his wife conceived a child. 



At about this time Opelemoemoe said to his wife: "I am returning to Oahu and 

 I want you to keep this my word. H you should give birth to a boy, give him the name 

 of Kalelealuaka ; and if after he grows up he expresses the desire to come in search 

 of me let have this token,* a spear." The wife lived on by herself until she gave birth 

 to a boy to whom she gave the name of Kalelealuaka. She brought him up until he was 

 big. He was a great mischief-maker and would often urinate in the calabash of food 

 and such other mischievous acts. Because of this, his step-father often punished him ; 

 when Kalelealuaka would run off to his mother crving and would demand of her that she 

 tell him of his father. The mother would then tell him that he had no other father than 

 the one who was living with them. As this was continued for some time the mother 

 at last told him, saying: "Yes, you have a different father; he is in Kalauao, Oahu, in 

 the district of Ewa, in the village of Kahuoi ; his name is Opelemoemoe." Kalikookalauae 

 then handed Kalelealuaka the spear left by Opelemoemoe as the token by which he was 

 to recognize his son. 



Kalelealuaka then left Kauai and set sail, first landing at Pokai, in Waianae, and 

 from there proceeded overland to Kalauao, Ewa, and then to Kahuoi. When he came 

 to the house which had been pointed to him as the home of Oi^elemoenioe, he found 

 that he had gone out farming, so he continued on to the taro j^atches where he found 

 Opelemoemoe planting taro. Kalelealuaka then stood on the edge of the patch and called 

 out: "Say, your rows of taro are crooked." Opelemoemoe then began to straighten out 

 the rows, row after row ; but the boy would call out the same thing. Finally Opele- 

 moemoe said: "How strange this is! Here I have been doing this right along and my 

 rows were never crooked, but today, they seem to have all gone crooked." He thereupon 

 quit working and went to the edge of the patch where Kalelealuaka was standing; when 

 he got to the edge of the patch he said: "Whose offspring art thou?" "Your own." 

 "Mine by whom?" "Yours with Kalikookalauae. I am Kalelealuaka, your son of Ka- 

 uai." They thereupon returned to the house. 



'Another deserting father's token of identity. 



